Christopher Shannon Penn
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Christopher Shannon Penn was an American character actor known for his roles in films such as "Footloose," "Reservoir Dogs," and "True Romance."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Christopher Shannon Penn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10355160 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christopher Shannon Penn Context triple: [Chris Penn, birthName, Christopher Shannon Penn]
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A.
Jeremy Potts
Jeremy Potts is one of the adventurous children in the classic musical film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," known for his role in the fantastical journey with their eccentric inventor father and magical car.
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B.
Christopher Charles Geppert
Christopher Charles Geppert, better known as Christopher Cross, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist famed for his soft rock hits like "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" that dominated the early 1980s.
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C.
Christopher Courtney
Christopher Courtney was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command during the early years of the Second World War.
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D.
Justin Kennedy
Justin Kennedy is an American lawyer and former Deutsche Bank executive best known as the son of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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E.
Brennan Chapman
Brennan Chapman is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated feature film "The Super Mario Bros. Movie."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christopher Shannon Penn Target entity description: Christopher Shannon Penn was an American character actor known for his roles in films such as "Footloose," "Reservoir Dogs," and "True Romance."
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A.
Jeremy Potts
Jeremy Potts is one of the adventurous children in the classic musical film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," known for his role in the fantastical journey with their eccentric inventor father and magical car.
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B.
Christopher Charles Geppert
Christopher Charles Geppert, better known as Christopher Cross, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist famed for his soft rock hits like "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" that dominated the early 1980s.
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C.
Christopher Courtney
Christopher Courtney was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command during the early years of the Second World War.
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D.
Justin Kennedy
Justin Kennedy is an American lawyer and former Deutsche Bank executive best known as the son of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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E.
Brennan Chapman
Brennan Chapman is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated feature film "The Super Mario Bros. Movie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2006 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Chris Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cardiomyopathy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-10-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-01-24 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Leo Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Christopher Shannon Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Christopher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Eileen Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All the Right Moves
NERFINISHED
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At Close Range NERFINISHED ⓘ Beethoven's 2nd NERFINISHED ⓘ Best of the Best NERFINISHED ⓘ Corky Romano NERFINISHED ⓘ Deceiver NERFINISHED ⓘ Footloose NERFINISHED ⓘ Mulholland Falls NERFINISHED ⓘ One Tough Cop NERFINISHED ⓘ Pale Rider NERFINISHED ⓘ Reservoir Dogs NERFINISHED ⓘ Rush Hour NERFINISHED ⓘ Short Cuts NERFINISHED ⓘ Starsky & Hutch NERFINISHED ⓘ The Boys Club NERFINISHED ⓘ The Florentine NERFINISHED ⓘ The Funeral NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wild Life NERFINISHED ⓘ True Romance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
California
NERFINISHED
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Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Santa Monica NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Michael Penn
NERFINISHED
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Sean Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Christopher Shannon Penn Description of subject: Christopher Shannon Penn was an American character actor known for his roles in films such as "Footloose," "Reservoir Dogs," and "True Romance."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.